Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 10

To the President of Congress, No. 3

From Tristram Dalton
To the President of Congress, No. 4, 24 August 1780 JA President of Congress Huntington, Samuel To the President of Congress, No. 4, 24 August 1780 Adams, John President of Congress Huntington, Samuel
To the President of Congress, No. 4
Sir Amsterdam Aug. 24. 1780

I have only time by this Vessell to inclose the declarations of Sweeden and Denmark;1 but the chance of her going safe is so small that I should not send any thing very material, if I had more time. I have the Honour to be &c.

LbC (Adams Papers); notation: “recd in congress Decr. 3.” According to the Journal of Congress, this letter was read on 4 Dec. ( JCC , 18:1116), but it is not in the PCC.

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See JA's letter to the president of Congress of 14 Aug., No. 1 (above).